Show STUDENT LITE the bank when he left and John found it necessary to sell a part of the ranch to get operating money Old Eph growing weaker and older since his partner’s death in dumbThe spirit of Eph ness watched became the spirit of John He forgave The dumb look grew He he reduced the working force worked harder he would conquer as Eph had conquered Six years had passed Eph was He had not survived gone now John dumb his partner long eyed and quiet the same John was now caring for Bessie s mother The farm had been cut in two but His only John had triumphed pleasure now was the glory of struggle and a constant animal like dumb attention to the consumptive mother of llcssic The It was again farm was paying approaching its former machine He still worked like perfection no longer supervising but since the farm was smalleras one of the men They had heard from Frank and Grass valley Bessie occasionally admired and pitied the big quiet man who had apparently forgotten and forgiven and who worshiped the girl’s mother as he would have worshiped the girl It was harvesting time once Danielsons were again more heading The day’s work was over and John Danielson hurried a tired span of header horses toward home He had heard from Frank not long before Frank was ill The Henderson was showing John gazed dumbly across the still unfinished fields and thought of her mother waiting for him He dreamed his horses stopped at the Erma spring Something arose that had been lying prostrate there and a wild animal-like look leaped into the quiet man’s eyes It came toward him John Danielson looked into the eyes of the woman who had ruined his life The wild animal danced where dumbness had lurked beher head She hesitated fore drooped Danielson saw a cup in her hand and saw her lips move “Forgive he is dead” and a wandering breeze blew a lock of hair across her face Danielson heard he slowly relaxed his rigid attitude Ealteringly his hand reached for the cup he drank and the look came into his eyes that came into the eyes of Eph when he stood with his sweetheart in the bend of Blue Creek in the sunset and chose the nest Rcpctc |